The book is now ready for printing. The files will be sent to the printer next week. The exact date of printing has to be established by the printer, but it is safe to say that the physical distribution of the book to the pre-subscribers will be in the first weeks of May."
Quelle: http://www.imx.nl/photo/blog-2/update-leica-practicum.html
Inhalt:
"Here is the listing of the content
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Part One: The Theory Debate
(01) The origins of photography
---mimesis and imitation
---machine drawing
---pencil of nature
---genesis of photography
(02) street and documentary photography
---the urge to take photographs
---witness and detective
---the snapshot
(03) Theories of photography
---the complex causal relationship with reality
---the New Vision
---radical sociology of photography
---museum and archive
(04) Perception
---how we see the world
---why things look as they do
(05) Things in the Box
---Objects, reality, external world
---photography and science
---objectivity and counterfactuals
(06) Principles of Linear perspective
(07) What is a picture
---pictorial representation
---resemblance
(08) nature of photography
(09) the imaging chain
(10) Photography as an art form
---traces, index, transformation
---the photograph as signifier
---meaning of a photograph
(11) Restless pixels: digital images
(12) The uses of photography
(13) Guidelines for a Leica Photography
Part Two: Silver-halide photography
(00) review of Leica cameras
(01) photographic materials
---physical and electronic properties
---spectral sensitization
---mechanism of development
(02) sensitometry
(03) ISO film speed, Exposure Index
(04) current film types
---document films
---medium-speed films
---high-speed films
(05) Developer types
---fine grain
---high definition
(06) Resolution, acutance, grain
(07) Practical development
---the Heiland TAS developer tool
---density and contrast index
(08) Determination of correct exposure
---exposure meters
---radiometry, photometry
(09) Darkroom printing
---paper and developer choice
---Heiland Splitgrade system
(10) Zone System
---myth versus reality
---tone reproduction
---zone placement
Part Three: solid-state photography
(00) review of Leica cameras
(01) solid-state detectors
---fundamentals CCD and CMOS
(02) signal processing
---sampling, aliasing, resolution
---dynamic range and bit depth
---noise
---calibration
---gain
---SNR
(03) Speed determination for Leica cameras
(04) Spectral sensitivity of Leica cameras
(05) RAW data and DNG
---the digital negative
---EXIF data
(06) Zone System for digital capture
---expose for the right?
(07) RAW development
---DCRAW developer
---post processing and image editing
---parametric versus pixel editing
---choice of software developers
(07) Digital printing
---choice of papers
---choice of printers
---piezography
---dedicated BW printing ink sets"
Quelle: http://www.imx.nl/photo/blog-2/leica-practicum.html